In the vogue words of the time, the Scholls and their friends represented the “other” Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, in contrast to the Germany that was reverting to barbarism and trying to take the world with it. What they were and what they did would have been “other” in any society at any time. What they did transcended the easy division of good-German/bad-German and lifted them above the nationalism of time-bound events. Their actions made them enduring symbols of the struggle, universal and timeless, for the freedom of the human spirit wherever and whenever it is threatened.
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I know it all seems rather harsh to some, but when are you going to object? And how will you object?
Radical forces destroyed the Weimar Republic. These radical forces were Nazism and Communism. This is historical fact.
Could it be that radical forces on both sides of the political divide are destroying the American Republic?
Just asking the question. It may seem awfully "mean" of me to ask such a question, but I don't care what people think. I don't rely upon "conventional wisdom". For that "wisdom" says to shut up and lie low.
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